Preparing a coordinated marketing campaign

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groups.google.com - Should we move the discussions to a more “organised” forum?

- I really like http://www.discourse.org which is a modern and open source discussion platform, from some of the people (or maybe just one?) that started stackoverflow.com.

http://discourse.org looks very interesting, and I too trust the Stackexchange guys to produce something better than the status quo. It is relatively new, so there’s a risk but hey, let’s give it a try, we’ll soon know if its not great.

- There is now a Discourse forum for you all to try out at www.maidsafe.org. Consider it a test, if people like it, we’ll improve it as time goes by.

goindeep - MaidSafe - If we can find out where most people heard about it, we can leverage that and create a fire hydrant effect.

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Mine was the 2014 LTB YouTube interview with David

I’m trying to do my bit on there too and have been more and more so over recent weeks.

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We will not launch before everyone agrees it is beneficial to the project, but at least we will be preparing for that day

Has this been decided or is there an indication when this will be decided?

We’ve had both, but the Reddit has not been prioritised as a resource to engage a wider community. Closing this forum isn’t required to begin utilising reddit to a greater degree.

I agree that more quality content and debate on Reddit would be good for the project, and I like the radical thinking. But I think a sensible first step would be to promote engagement of forum members with the subreddits, and to discuss how to maximise impact through reddit.

The quality of interaction here means we could have a new thread focusing on coordinating the community’s use of reddit to maximise the impact that can be had through it.

As some have pointed out, reddit is different, and the depth of community that this forum format has enabled should certainly not be thrown out. It couldn’t simply be replicated on Reddit while maintaining the positive dynamics that have developed.

If after some months subreddits were to become far more popular than here & the community prefers it, then any shift can occur organically without any central decision to close this forum.

So I agree that reddit is underutilised by this community, and effort should be made to engage through it. Let’s focus on doing that, and that can happen without any requirement of closing this forum.

Suggestions:

  • create a thread on this forum to discuss how to maximise marketing impact by using Reddit
  • have regular updates on this forum to highlight activity on reddit to encourage people to engage on Reddit (via a wiki thread?)
  • put regular updates on reddit to highlight popular forum activity

How do people think Reddit impact could be maximised?

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Bearing in mind that /r/maidsafe is to be closed with users redirected to /r/safenetwork, I think creating a thread here to discuss the best way forward when that happens is a great idea. Then when it happens we’ll be ready to leap into action.

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Closed? I hadn’t read this before.

I strongly think this is a bad idea. /r/maidsafe has forged a decent readership, which /r/safenetwork has not. Deciding to abandon this, rather than leveraging it would see like an exercise in foot shooting.

If Maidsafe and SAFENetwork become so differentiated that the dialogue needs to be split, it should be done then. Right now, people don’t care what the difference is - they just want to talk about the network maidsafe is working on. I doubt most people even know it is called SAFENetwork.

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Ignore that, I don’t think it was a solid plan, just a suggestion. I can’t find any reference to it.

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It was background discussions where Maidsafe wanted talk about the network to be on the safenetwork one rather than on the company’s Maidsafe. As we move forward the focus should be on the network since the company will change focus a little once the network is live.

@Jabba, Would it not be better to keep both so we do not lose what w have here. But start afresh with the safenetwork one on reddit and use the move from the maidsafe one as motivation for others to use reddit a lot more. As the members increase there will certainly be enough people for both forums to thrive.

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Hey, everyone … wouldn´t this be a good time for Maidsafe to have an easy kind of wallet, like on Shapeshift ,so people would be able to buy and stock their coins fast ? I keep telling people to buy MS, but I get stuck when telling them how MS works! These times when specialists are advising people to diversify , a wallet would be a great help…

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omni isn’t so bad but I think even though the keys are fully controlled people still feel funny about on-line wallets.

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How much work would it be to customise an instance of OmniWallet.org to make a nice pretty MaidSafe one, hmm maybe with buttons for Shapeshift

Hmm… Maybe a good CEP?

Whatever pumps reddit and gets more people involved i’m down with really. I was just suggesting that from a purely cynical marketing perspective I’d want to get all that valuable content under other people’s noses. I don’t mind being heavy-handed if it gets the job done, but I guess others are more sensitive about their day-to-day experience and the atmosphere they perceive; I’m really just focused on the end-game for SAFE Network with my marketing hat on, I see the ‘community’ as a tool to that end, it’s not like it will last anyway. When SAFE launches millions will flock to everywhere SAFE and this place will be very different.

Anyway, I’m back home now, so for the next few weeks or months at least I’ll be on the r/threads trying to create more content. Peace and love dudes and dudettes :v:

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Made a new video, click the logo below.

I’m not fully satisfied with how it turned out, but I felt like sharing it anyway. Hope you guys like it.

Protip: Turn up the volume. :wink:

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Earth-shaking. Transformative. Is good.

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That was amazing - loved it!

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Can somebody stick it on here?

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Just another alternative. Outsourcing the marketing but it comes at a cost.
2018 and Beyond: Tokens Are Slowly Eating the Firm 2018 and Beyond: Tokens Are Slowly Eating the Firm - CoinDesk via @CoinDesk

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Some good stuff in there . The only downside for me is that there could have been a lot more messaging in the time gaps where there was no writing on screen.

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If we don’t put it on the official Maidsafe Youtube channel maybe we can create a fan channel where fan stuff can go?